The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Sustainability leadership. The book highlights how Swedish organizations have come to lead the way in terms of corporate sustainability, and includes findings and analysis from dozens of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

Shaw 126

Shaw Chief Executive Officer Letter Survey 126

Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list. Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. Whatever is currently at the core of the company today, making up the majority of the top and bottom lines, won’t remain the same in the long run.

Innovation 223

Innovation Organization Bottom-up Airlines 223

HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2021

Employer Branding can be termed as the identity of a business or enterprise. This means employers have to now market themselves as viable options where people can build a rewarding career. According to a 2018 survey by Randstad US, 86% of job seekers said they wouldn’t apply or work for a company with a bad employer reputation.

Brand 88

Brand PR Media Reputation 88

Steve Farber

MARCH 6, 2018

Paul has worked for over 33 years with the United States Postal Service – playing roles from City Letter Carrier to Senior Leadership Positions in Marketing, Finance, and Post Office Operations. There is an old leadership maxim that says: “People may forget the words you say…but they will never forget the way you made them feel.”.

Leadership 66

Leadership Long-term Energy Letter 66

Thin Difference

JUNE 29, 2019

How will you talk about it in marketing? When you invest in an employee’s career development, you’re more likely to secure their retention for the long-term. Work together to determine how you’ll promote these learning opportunities, and how you’ll integrate them during on-boarding.

Education 92

Education Seminar How To Handbook 92

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. Do away with the game of quarterly earnings guidance, and instead articulate to investors your “strategic framework for long-term value creation.”

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. The more strategic and Big Picture in scope, then planning reaps long-term rewards. Firms which package and market services. Self Appointed.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

It’s more than simply clumsy leadership. In his 2018 annual letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of global investment company, BlackRock, Inc., Demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only [your] own investment returns but also the prosperity and security of [your] fellow citizens.”.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2018

Whether it’s embracing differing cultural backgrounds or bringing in workers from abroad, modern businesses are becoming more diverse than ever in terms of talent. Beyond data that supports that more diverse companies reap higher profits, casting a wider net in terms of backgrounds and culture means dipping into a deeper pool of talent.

Diversity 50

Diversity Tactics Strategy Short-term 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2018

Include the following key requirements you need to experience long-term stability, and you’ll be quickly heading down the right path. This is an instance where you do want to obsess over the details and make sure you’re putting yourselves on a solid course to victory for the long-term. Strong Leadership.

Long-term 52

Long-term Objective Business Model Policies 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Business relationships with customers, collaborators and other professionals are established to be long-term in duration. Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated? Do you have a detailed, written analysis of your market area? Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 51

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. McKinsey followed up with a 2018 report that echoed the finding of the first: diversity is good for the bottom line. Their GPA may have suffered under long work hours.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. ’” he said recently.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. But almost everyone involved in a young company is betting on the long-term. PhotoAlto/Jorge Goncalves/Getty Images.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Jim’s resume checked all of the boxes (and then some), but his Achilles’ heel was a long-winded, almost philosophical communication style — more befitting a cerebral academic than a bottom- line-oriented CFO who can drive performance and credibly represent the company with the investment community. .”

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In all this table-pounding is a central truth in today’s Big Data world: both the CMO and CIO are on the hook for turning all that data into above-market growth. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Each year, FSG evaluates more than 100 scenarios that could disrupt our economic forecasts for 73 countries.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018. Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. At the last Congress, in 2011, Raul Castro had announced plans to introduce new market reforms and attract foreign investment. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8